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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:33:00 GMT

ABI Research: Personal Robot Sales to Exceed $5 Billion by 2015

(Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Advances in military and commercial robots will continue to trickle down to the consumer market, and components will see price declines driven by their use in other markets (e.g., laser rangefinders in the automotive
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:33:00 GMT

Award-winning laser-powered robotic climber paves way for 'space elevator'

London, November 7 : A laser-powered robotic climber has won 900,000 dollars NASA prize in a competition designed to spur technology for a future elevator to space. Building a space elevator would require anchoring a cable on the ground near Earth’s
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:52:00 GMT

Making Robots Absent-Minded Boosts Their Memory

Scientists have developed a new method that allows robots to remember relevant pieces of information from the sea of data they collect from the environment, by emulating the way human memory works. Each individual is able to recall the most important
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:48:00 GMT

Respiratory Motion Tracking for Robotic Radiosurgery

Tumors in the thorax and abdomen move up to several centimeters during respiration. This intra-fraction motion impacts all forms of external beam radiation therapy and is an issue that is becoming increasingly important in the era of image-guided
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 12:58:00 GMT

Laer robot wins space elevator contest

LOS ANGELES - A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 (C600,000) prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space - an idea spurred by science fiction novels. The team's robotic machine raced up more than 2,950 feet (900
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:48:00 GMT

10. Data Robotics Signs Bell Micro for Pan-European Distribution | Read Date: Friday 23 October 2009

Under the terms of the agreement, Bell Micro will distribute Data Robotics' innovative and award-winning DroboPro, Drobo, and DroboShare storage solutions in nine European countries including the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands and others.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 08:56:00 GMT

ARC Specialties and Lincoln Electric to Host Robotics Seminar

Automated manufacturing systems company (Houston, TX) plans to host a robotics seminar along with (Cleveland, OH). Applied Automation: Robots In Manufacturing is the second installment in a series of technical seminars held at ARC Specialties main U.S
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:46:00 GMT

Award-winning laser-powered robotic climber paves way for 'space elevator'

London, November 7 : A laser-powered robotic climber has won 900,000 dollars NASA prize in a competition designed to spur technology for a future elevator to space. Building a space elevator would require anchoring a cable on the ground near Earth's
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:26:00 GMT

BEST Robotics and IEEE: Inspiring Tomorrow's Technology Professionals Today

By Mark D. Conner The Need to Have an Impact As an engineer and a high school teacher, I can tell you that the two professions have one major thing in common - both impact a lot of people on a daily basis. Unfortunately for most engineers and for far
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:48:00 GMT

ABI Research: Personal Robot Sales to Exceed $5 Billion by 2015

Advances in military and commercial robots will continue to trickle down to the consumer market, and components will see price declines driven by their use in other markets (e.g., laser rangefinders in the automotive industry), according to the ABI
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:44:00 GMT

Award-winning laser-powered robotic climber paves way for ‘space elevator’

London, November 7 : A laser-powered robotic climber has won 900,000 dollars NASA prize in a competition designed to spur technology for a future elevator to space. Building a space elevator would require anchoring a cable on the ground near Earth’s
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:43:00 GMT

Award-winning laser-powered robotic climber paves way for ‘space elevator’

A laser-powered robotic climber has won 900,000 dollars NASA prize in a competition designed to spur technology for a future elevator to space. Building a space elevator would require anchoring a cable on the ground near Earth’s equator and
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:34:00 GMT

Award-winning laser-powered robotic climber paves way for ‘space elevator’

A laser-powered robotic climber has won 900,000 dollars NASA prize in a competition designed to spur technology for a future elevator to space. Building a space elevator would require anchoring a cable on the ground near Earth’s equator and
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:34:00 GMT

Law Enforcement Intelligent Devices to install its locker system and patent-pending BACS

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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:41:00 GMT

ATS Medical Announces First in World Human Robotic Endoscopic Aortic Valve Replacement

Company Expands Minimally Invasive Program MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 2 (HSMN NewsFeed) -- ATS Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATSI ), manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products and services, announced the first human robot assisted endoscopic
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:57:00 GMT

Robots and dials and knobsâoh my!

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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:44:00 GMT

Robotic hand can feel

I In a key scene in The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker has his hand chopped off, and before the movies over, he has a fresh, robotic one in its place. This is no longer the stuff of fantasy'researchers at Tel Aviv University, in conjunction with a
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:30:00 GMT

World's First Arabic-Speaking Robot

First Arabic-Speaking Robot First Arabic-Speaking Robot IbnSina, the world's first Arabic-speaking humanoid robot, could soon be put to work in the Middle East shopping malls. Rate this : (1 Votes) Thursday, November 05, 2009: The Interactive Robots and
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:07:00 GMT

China to hold robot Olympics

China is planning to hold a robot Olympics in 2010. The international event will be held in the city of Harbin and will see robots take part in 16 different events, the BBC reports. Robots will be able to compete in familiar Olympic sports such as
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:04:00 GMT

Sat Nov 14 Robots & Surnames

The Debaters is the hit CBC Radio show that features Canada’s hottest comedians going toe to toe, debating topics in the news and on the minds of Canadians. The audience picks the winners based on who delivered the best logic and laughs, the best
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:33:00 GMT

Military Robotics; Thank You For Your Support

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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:17:00 GMT

University-Industry Teams From United States, Australia Among 12 Finalists In Worldwide Robotics Competition

Photo credit TARDEC Public Affairs The Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC 2010) cosponsored by the Defence Science & Technology Organisation in Australia and the Research, Development & Engineering Command in USA is a new
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:54:00 GMT

Robot Fish Could Monitor Water Quality

News From the Field Source Michigan State University The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2009, its
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:27:00 GMT

China to hold first humanoid robot Olympics

HARBIN, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Robot makers around the world can show their creations and compete in the first International Humanoid Robot Olympic Games next June in China's northeastern city of Harbin. More than 100 universities from about 20 countries are
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:39:00 GMT

Blog - Absent-minded Robots Remember What Matters

Robots could mimic human forgetfulness to filter out less useful information.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:15:00 GMT

When your robots do the fighting

From: The Australian Will the use of drones in warfare make the world a safer place or will it lead us to lose track of the morals of armed conflict? -- D. P., Rockingham, WA SCIENCE fiction is replete with fantasies of wars being fought by droids,
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:38:00 GMT

Robopocalypse Acquired By DreamWorks and Doubleday

Films, Licensing, Writing | Geographic Region: All | Site Categories: Books, Films, Licensing, Writing The rights to Daniel H. Wilson's unpublished manuscript ROBOPOCALYPSE have been acquired by DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday, COMINGSOON.NET reports.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:12:00 GMT

TARDEC Robots Boss Goes to Washington

Robotic Industries AssociationPosted 11/06/2009 DETROIT ARSENAL, WARREN, MI - An emerging military opportunity in Washington D.C. will allow the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) in Warren, MI, to set the
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:27:00 GMT

A Glimpse of the Future: Robots Aiding the Elderly

Among the products in development in Japan: A robotic bed from Panasonic that transforms into a joystick-controlled wheelchair on the user's spoken command. There's also Riba, a robot nurse disguised as a giant teddy bear, which can lift patients
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:16:00 GMT

Absent-minded Robots Remember What Matters

Robots could mimic human forgetfulness to filter out less useful information. By Kristina Grifantini We are constantly inundated with new information, and to manage it effectively it's sometimes necessary to forget old, irrelevant memories. Researchers
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:48:00 GMT